The Ancestor of All Demons

Shi Feiyang told the Princess of Stone God: "Exactly because Deng Yin hates me to the bone, I want to tell him, after all, he has called me brother so many times, I, as his elder, must be gracious and see if I can mend things a bit, to make him hate me a little less."

Princess of Stone God knew that this was certainly not the real reason. It was obvious that Shi Feiyang was sowing discord. Without bothering to say more to him, she immediately took Red Lotus Demon and Sikong Zhan to rush to the Capital.

After Shi Feiyang watched her leave ahead, he calculated the timing and appeared before Deng Yin in the Blood Pool.

He used the Chaos Dragon Ball at that moment, directly forming a three-dimensional, blood-drenched human body from the Blood Pool, clothed in blood garments, hair disheveled: "Deng Yin."

If any normal person saw this scene, they'd be scared to death on the spot.

Deng Yin was also startled. As the Blood God, he wasn't terrified by Shi Feiyang's appearance, but shocked that Shi Feiyang could materialize like this through mana in his Blood Pool.

He hurriedly scanned around, his eyes flashing with Demon Light, instantly surveying the surrounding area within a span of ten thousand miles, unable to find Shi Feiyang.

"Where are you speaking from?"

"Brother is right here." Shi Feiyang spoke with calm gentleness, "Deng Yin, I heard you hate me to the bone, want to grind my bones into ashes, cast me into the Blood Prison, never to be reborn, is it true?"

"Of course!" Deng Yin stared at him intently, voice low, filled with malice.

"Just because in the past life, I schemed and ruined your physical body?"

"Not just that!"

Shi Feiyang looked straight into Deng Yin's eyes from afar: "I don't believe it."

Deng Yin shuddered at his gaze, even though it was merely a temporary form made of blood, even though he could destroy it with a mere gesture, it brought him an overwhelming pressure.

He snorted coldly: "We were never brothers! From the start, it was filled with scheming..."

"Even if we weren't brothers in the past, what about the future? Can we still be brothers?"

Deng Yin, once again overwhelmed, found himself speechless, before saying firmly: "Impossible! We'll never be brothers, neither in the past nor in the future!"

Raising both hands, filled with boundless ambition in his voice: "I am definitely going to turn this world into the Demon Realm! No one can stop me! Not even you! I refuse to follow your arrangement or be manipulated by you. If you want to be brothers again, you'll have to join under my banner, let's cultivate in the Demon Path together. Once the world is successfully demonized, I'll bestow the South Sea upon you to be the South Sea Dragon King!"

"Understood." Shi Feiyang nodded slightly, sighed softly, knowing their paths differ, "There's one thing I think should be told to you."

Deng Yin's eyes flashed with Demon Light: "Have you schemed against me again?"

Shi Feiyang chuckled: "I saw the Red Flower Princess in the Capital."

"Really?" Deng Yin asked in surprise, "Did you come specifically to tell me her whereabouts?"

"Because before meeting you, I visited the Princess of Stone God, she also knows about this, she should have already arrived in the Capital by now."

Deng Yin was greatly shocked, then roared with anger: "You are indeed scheming against me again! Shi Feiyang, wait for me!"

Gritting his teeth, he uttered these last words, flung out a Demon Light, shattering Shi Feiyang's blood-formed figure into pieces, transforming into a mist of blood. Deng Yin opened his mouth and inhaled, consuming the blood mist, grinding his teeth, then turned into a Blood Shadow, darting towards the east like a bolt of lightning.

Shi Feiyang wisely sensed the tension between the trio, first revealing the hidden Red Flower Princess in the Capital, then sending the Princess of Stone God to capture her.

The Red Flower Princess surely didn't want to fall into the hands of the Princess of Stone God; forced to desperation, she would willingly seek refuge with Shi Feiyang, willingly joining the Demon God Scripture.

Doing this would naturally increase Deng Yin's hatred towards Shi Feiyang, but he would also hate the Princess of Stone God.

He hated the Princess of Stone God for the Red Flower Princess, and the Princess of Stone God would naturally feel jealous and sad, creating a rift between the two Great Demons.

As long as the Red Flower Princess remains with Shi Feiyang, and the worse her plight, the greater Deng Yin's hatred becomes, making the rift irreparable.

Sure enough, now Deng Yin and the Princess of Stone God are engaged in a cold war, no longer the inseparable couple, sharing love and harmony.

Both knew Shi Feiyang aimed to sow discord, Deng Yin knew too, but he would still resent the Princess of Stone God!

Filled with intense hatred, Deng Yin transformed the Star Constellations Sea entirely into a Blood Pool Demon Sea, solidifying his position to rival the Giant Wood God.

First, they searched and divided all Soul Spirit Bodies across Central Earth, now it's hard to find even a wandering ghost, every wild grave, every burial ground completely clean, not a single ghost, either under Taishan's Giant Wood God or surrendered to the Western Regions Star Sea.

Xin Ru Nun also erected the Seven Treasures Golden Banner in Jiuhua Mountain, with Buddha's Light Shining Everywhere, her teachings extending not merely to humans, but to all beings, gods, demons, and ghosts...

She also made great vows:

In this world, if there are still sentient beings harboring the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance, she will not attain Supreme Enlightenment.

In this world, if there are still the three paths of Hungry Ghosts, Beasts, and Hell, she will not attain Supreme Enlightenment.

In this world, if there are still sentient beings who cannot overcome delusions and gain enlightenment, who have not broken the view of self and extinguished the afflictions of view and thought, she will not attain Supreme Enlightenment.

In this world, if there are still sentient beings who attain the Arhat or Pratyekabuddha but do not enter the Mahayana, she will not attain Supreme Enlightenment.

...

Her great vow is indeed ambitious, even more so than that of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and Amitabha Buddha.

Firstly, her goal is the sentient beings of this world, which include all humans, gods, demons, ghosts, flying creatures, beasts, and even an ant, a cockroach.

Secondly, her goal is for all these sentient beings to reach the Arhat realm, which is the minimum standard!

That is to say, she wants every sentient being in this world, even an earthworm, to cultivate into an Arhat… and not just an Arhat of the Lesser Vehicle, but to reach a level equivalent to an Arhat within the Bodhisattva Path, and must all achieve a Bodhisattva realm above the Arhat level…

The ultimate Supreme Enlightenment refers to becoming a Buddha, and not attaining Supreme Enlightenment is akin to vowing not to become a Buddha.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva only aspires to save the suffering ghosts in Hell, she aims to save all sentient beings!

She envisions the future of this world to be without the Three Evil Paths, meaning without Hell, Hungry Ghosts, or Beasts. In this world, there are no ghosts, all are humans or above, meaning heavenly beings, with no beasts. If there are animals, they are her avatars…

Achieving such a lofty vow at her level of cultivation is not something that can be done lightly. She has accumulated for a long time, and now the time is ripe — although not entirely so, the main reason is that if she does not act now, she will lag behind Deng Yin and the Giant Wood God, hence a somewhat forced feeling.

After she made her great vow, the Buddha's light shone, enveloping the Jiuhua Mountain and a radius of ten thousand miles. To her left stood E Shengfan, who had mastered the "Demonic Destruction Treasure Record", and to her right was the dignified Caiwei Bodhisattva Zhu Youmu, along with the Ten High Monks and Ten Divine Nuns, all sealed by her as Golden Arhats.

Besides these, there are also the five hundred Arhats she personally sealed, three thousand good gods, and the Heavenly Dragon Eight Divisions, all emitting a golden light that illuminated the world.

These followers joined their voices in a Brahma chant, but it was not the usual Heavenly Dragon chant of the Buddhist sect of this world, nor the Vajra Zen chant, but her self-composed "Xin Ru Heart Sutra", abbreviated as the Great Heart Sutra, which began with "Thus I have heard, Caiwei Bodhisattva used the heart to seal the heart, illuminating that all six realms are empty..."

She also shone the Buddha's light upon all sentient beings, and those Hungry Ghost soul bodies directly received the baptism of the Buddha's light, flew to Jiuhua Mountain, and were molded by her into golden bodies, instantly becoming Golden Arhats.

Various flying creatures and beasts, fish, turtles, shrimp, crabs, and even earthworms and grasshoppers, also hurried to Jiuhua Mountain, bathed in the Buddha's light, their bodies transformed in three days, or seven days, or a hundred days, all attaining human form, and listened to the teachings at the foot of the mountain, all achieving golden bodies.

The Xin Ru Buddha universally saved all sentient beings, with profound mana, unparalleled and inconceivable!

The three factions each employed their methods, vying for followers, and soon the spreading Buddha's light encountered the Immortal Light from Taishan.

However, both sides tacitly did not act immediately, but rather pressed against each other, maintaining a temporary balance, then expanded toward the surroundings, encompassing the Four Extremes and Eight Desolates beyond the Central Earth Continent, searching the whole world.

Soon, the soul bodies of the overseas Four Extremes and Eight Desolates were all collected by the three people.

The Giant Wood God, relying on the support of the Ten Heavenly Venerables' Sutra of Salvation from Emperor Qinghua and the Grand Saint of Nine Spirits, absorbed the most, totaling tens of billions.

Xin Ru Nun, due to her "broader scope", converted even cockroaches and fish, totaling a hundred billion.

Deng Yin's side collected relatively few, just over ten million.

The number of soul bodies in this world exceeds that of living humans, accumulated over millions of years, especially since they also gathered various residual soul fragments scattered in the soil.

Aside from the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, the rest of the world was all covered by the mana of the three people.

A large number of overseas cultivators also came to Central Earth, joining the three factions.

Only a few with profound Daoist Technique could restrain themselves.

Master Chi Zhang of Lingjiao Immortal Palace on Tianpeng Mountain sent his senior disciple Ruan Jiu to the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain to find Shi Feiyang and discuss countermeasures.

Last time during the great tribulations of heaven and earth, Master Chi Zhang's family overcame it without relying on Shi Feiyang.

With the Divine Power of Master Chi Zhang, overcoming the Heavenly Tribulation, Demon Tribulation, Earth Tribulation, and Human Tribulation were all not difficult. Although he is still an Earth Immortal in terms of rank, he needs to pass another tribulation to ascend, but in terms of mana, he has already far surpassed a Heavenly Immortal, no less than a Golden Immortal, and these tribulations are merely a nuisance, certainly not something he cannot overcome.

What truly troubles him is the subsequent Dharma Decline Era, followed by Dharma Destruction, where Spiritual Energy withers, and eventually, he too would lose his mana, becoming an ordinary mortal.

He sent Ruan Jiu to find Shi Feiyang to ask how to cope with the upcoming Dharma Destruction Era, to assess if it is feasible.

If Shi Feiyang cannot make it work, he will have to look for other ways out, as the Giant Wood God has invited him to join several times.