The Ancestor of All Demons

In those years when the Stone God Palace Master attained the Dao and ascended, he did not go to any other Blood Demon World, but came to this Heaven of Self-Transformation.

He refined his entire being's spiritual energy into a ray of blood light that flew straight here.

The "Blood God Scripture" is exceedingly miraculous; while the Buddhists refine the mind and the Mysterious Sect refines Qi, it refines the blood. After the initial stages of shedding the skin and practicing, it allows one to gather and disperse into forms or Qi, possessing those divine abilities that only some Heavenly Immortals have.

The Five Yin Demon General only cultivated their Primordial Spirit into a Lifebound Divine Demon, and then ascended here, equivalent to rebirth, obtaining a celestial body.

The Stone God Palace Master still retained his original body of blood-concentrated Blood Magic Body, changing with his will, holding a millennium's worth of mana accumulation from his past life.

Simply put, other demons coming here are similar to the "rebirth" in Buddhism. In their original world, after their lifespan ends and they die, Amitabha Buddha guides their Primordial Spirit to the West, where they receive new life within lotus flowers, equivalent to experiencing a death tribulation, with their first life in the human world and their second in the West.

Buddhism emphasizes that all techniques are mere thoughts, and the Purple Gold Body is formed from the power of the mind's wishes, not from physical tempering.

Even high monks and divine nuns, after claiming ascension, shed their foul mortal shells. Either they self-immolate in a blaze, turn into sand or ash, or leave behind Shariputra, which are relics, essentially cremated remains.

Zen Masters like Zun Sheng, Tian Meng, Zhi Gong, and Bai Mei, upon reaching Nirvana, regain rebirth within the lotus.

Daoist ascension, however, differs. After forming the Dan, they still practice Returning Pill Refining Form, and after tiring of Mortal Land, their rebirth and transformation complete in the human world. Ascension to the Immortal Realm leaves behind an empty shell husk in the human world. The Yang God goes to Heaven, merely relocating, not experiencing rebirth after death as in the Immortal Realm.

The Stone God Palace Master coming to Heaven of Self-Transformation is more akin to the Daoist method, truly "ascending" and not rebirth.

Although he transformed himself into the appearance of a youthful boy, he has already cultivated a Blood Magic Body and can change into any form he desires.

It is precisely because of this that he is an "anomaly" in this Heaven of Self-Transformation, and he does not submit to Bodhi's control. Other Demon Kings wanting to enlist him to their ranks find themselves helpless.

In the end, they can only tolerate him claiming a territory here for his own amusement.

However, he is not lonely, as there are many demons from the Lower Realm who have "reborn" here and often come seeking guidance, still addressing him as Old Divine Master.

The Stone God Palace Master followed the Five Yin Demon General to the outside of Bodhi's Heavenly Palace, witnessing the Bloody Demon Talismans with gaping magical mouths, ensnaring and devouring groups of celestial beings with their tongues, crunching, crackling as they chew, constantly bleeding.

Among them, a celestial being who had "reborn" here had half his body clamped by the ghostly mouth. Despite continuously morphing his form, he could not escape, and in utter despair, suddenly saw the Stone God Palace Master, hurriedly crying out for help: "Old Divine Master, save me! Old Divine Master, please rescue me!"

The Stone God Palace Master waved the Blood Jade Ruyi in his hand, releasing a red light that enveloped the entire Demon Palace: "Fellow Daoist Shi, I am here. For my sake, please spare them!"

At the same time, red light emerged from the Blood Scripture in Shi Feiyang's hand, revealing a red-clothed child within, with striking delicate features yet sporting red hair and eyebrows, with eyes gleaming with golden light.

"Alright!" With his affirmative response, the magical kisses of the Bloody Demon Talismans on Bodhi's Demon Palace retracted, releasing the celestial beings they were consuming.

Many celestials, already eaten halfway, narrowly avoided death, quickly flying out, stretching their limbs to fully regenerate their arms and legs, bowing in thanks before the Stone God Palace Master.

The Stone God Palace Master, looking at the Bloody Demon Talismans, smiled and praised: "Fellow Daoist, indeed your achievements rival creation itself, to have cultivated the Blood God Scripture's demon curse to such a degree, truly admirable!"

Shi Feiyang also laughed, "Fellow Daoist has attained Dao and ascended, leaving no trace behind. Many esteemed figures said you went to the Blood Sea World of the Great Heavenly World. I spent great effort to compute that you were in the Heaven of Self-Transformation. This time, I made great arrangements to invite you out, and I hope you won't blame me."

The Stone God Palace Master said, "Alas, this 'Blood God Scripture' is an issue left behind over thousands of years. Whoever cultivates it becomes entangled in its complications. Ascending to the Blood Sea World? That's merely becoming the demon child and grandchild of the Blood Demon and a slave to the Blood Sea Demon King. I dare not go. Fellow Daoist, doing this is also to resolve the case of the 'Blood God Scripture'. How can I not give my utmost to help? Back then, I couldn't handle it, was incapable myself, could only preserve myself, yet let my only daughter be ensnared further into it. I later regarded this scripture as venomous, but fortunately, there's still a Fellow Daoist willing to intervene."

He waved his hand and sent out nine silver-white rays, across two realms, appearing in front of Shi Feiyang. Manifested were nine Spirit Talismans.

"Years ago, at the East Sea bottom of Silver Cicada Reef Water Cave, I obtained a strange book, left behind by a True Immortal of the Mysterious Sect. That year, when he acquired the 'Blood God Scripture', after reading it, he marveled and believed it could allow one to 'Gathering Forms, Scattering into Qi' without refining into a Yang God, finding it wondrous. But the cost was too great, requiring skin peeling and damaging the Dao Foundation, regrettably. So, he devised ways to compensate.

After spending many years, he wrote a Daoist book, detailing the origins of the 'Blood God Scripture' and various miraculous applications for its counteraction, and created nine Celestial Cicada Spirit Talismans. Training with these nine talismans, you don't need to peel off all your skin, use Demon Needles to pierce points, or suffer from burning Demon Fire. Once cultivated, the mortal body won't be destroyed, the Immortal Foundation remains intact, requiring only sitting in bitter meditation, concentrating on Qi refinement for eighty-three years."

Recalling the old 'Silver Cicada Treasure Scroll', the Stone God Palace Master sighed deeply, "That Immortal was a precursor of the Mysterious Sect's Righteous Path, with technique divine power, profoundly unfathomable, using Mysterious Sect's True Skill to annotate the demonic scripture, fully integrating without hinderance. Not only breaking all the formidable magic in the 'Blood God Scripture', but also filling its deficiencies. I used the contents recorded in that scripture to refine the 'Blood God Scripture', ultimately freeing from the entanglement of that demonic scripture, thus ascending here. Yet, my ill-fated daughter and son-in-law lack this effort.

Originally, Deng Yin also cultivated from the Mysterious Sect's orthodoxy. I hoped he could refine the 'Silver Cicada Treasure Scroll', liberating my young daughter as well, but everyone who had contact with the 'Blood God Scripture' got cursed, and those who cultivated suffered from unavoidable evil karma. I've tried to ferry them three times in total, all in vain. They were toyed with by the Blood Demon, entwined in emotional complications, woven into a web, none could escape, I lastly had no choice but to ascend alone."

Shi Feiyang nodded, "Your daughter and son-in-law want to turn the whole world into Blood Sea Demon Realm. With these nine Spirit Talismans, I can restrict them, and perhaps grant them a chance of redemption."

"Difficult! Difficult! Difficult!" The Stone God Palace Master said "Difficult" three times consecutively, "But Fellow Daoist has Mysterious Skill connecting to divine, wisdom, divine skills far surpassing mine, perhaps another fortuity, who knows. The 'Silver Cicada Treasure Scroll' was destroyed during its last use, leaving only these nine Spirit Talismans in my memory. Fortunately, with the Dao Level of Fellow Daoist, you don't need the other parts of the Daoist book, these nine Talismans are sufficient!"

He then persuaded Shi Feiyang, "The Bodhi King once accumulated great blessings, thus reborn atop the Six Desires Heaven as the Heavenly Lord. Fellow Daoist, if you capture him and imprison him in the book, it would provoke a great upheaval across the Three Realms of desire realm, earth realm, and heaven realm. Though Fellow Daoist won't fear, those around you are bound to suffer greatly. Please, Fellow Daoist, spare him!"

Shi Feiyang originally did not intend to truly capture Bodhi, since they were separated by worlds, indeed different dimensional worlds. His ability to establish a link between the two realms and forcibly summon Bodhi was all due to E Shengfan sacrificing to Bodhi, wanting Bodhi to eliminate him, Bodhi agreed to the demonic sacrifice but fled without acting, leveraging this connection to reach the current situation.

Having an extreme confrontation with Bodhi through E Shengfan was almost the limit. If he genuinely wanted to capture Bodhi, while not impossible, he would have to exert his full effort, the Primordial Spirit personally going to the Heaven of Self-Transformation. This would extend the time, causing disturbances on Xin Ru Nun's side as well, as the Stone God Palace Master already said mellow words, he naturally went along with it.

"Summoning you here this time, apart from these nine Spirit Talismans, there's one more matter I wish to inquire."

The Stone God Palace Master was puzzled, with the mana he cultivated, having the divine skills of Heaven of Self-Transformation's celestial beings, he hadn't anticipated Shi Feiyang's intention, "What matter does Fellow Daoist have to inquire freely."

"I've heard Fellow Daoist accompanied the Stone God Palace in ascension back in the day. Did you all reach the world of Heaven of Self-Transformation? I'm curious how Fellow Daoist accomplished that."

Compared to the Silver Cicada Talismans, Shi Feiyang cared more about this matter. He also wants to ascend to the Spiritual Space Immortal Realm with the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain. Though theoretically feasible, practically there are yet many issues. With such a successful case before him, naturally he must ask thoroughly.

Upon hearing this, the Stone God Palace Master, through divine skill sensing, immediately knew he intended to take the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, along with the billions of living beings on the Divine Mountain for ascending, his face instantly changed greatly.

"Fellow Daoist you... you actually... do you know the consequences of this action?"

Shi Feiyang nodded, the consequences he already understood from Shi Sheng, did not violate heavenly rules. After all, no one had ever done this before... The only precedent of ascension with conditions was very small in scale. Recorded in ancient books, house ascension actually involved ascending from the bustling human world to the overseas immortal islands, not directly ascending to the Spiritual Space Immortal Realm.

Thus, the heavenly rules are blank in this regard!

But undoubtedly heavenly immortals wouldn't agree, necessitating a great battle at that time.

Seeing his determined face, the Stone God Palace Master long sighed, "If it is like this, I won't try to dissuade you anymore. I'll tell you the method I used back then, but we are in different situations. this Heaven of Self-Transformation is not an Immortal Realm, it might not provide any usable guidance to you. I hope you still remain cautious in the end and don't lead yourself to destruction!"