The Ancestor of All Demons

On the auspicious day selected by Shi Feiyang, he donned the bright yellow Nine Dragon Immortal Robe surrounded by myriad clouds, adorned his head with the Cangtian Sun and Moon Temple, and wore the Five Mountains Cloud Sea Boots on his feet. He led the group of immortals and myriad demons atop the altar city of Tongye Island to hold a motivational assembly and wrote an "Ascension Form," explicitly stating his intentions and purposes, then burned it with True Fire, offering it to the Heavenly God.

After delivering the announcements, he held the Nine Heavens Yuan Yang Ruler in his hand, pointed it skyward, and loudly declared, "Set forth! Ascend! Rush towards the Spiritual Space!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Secret Demon Divine Shuttles in the three hundred and sixty Divine Shuttle Wells surrounding Outer Heaven Divine Mountain simultaneously ignited, ejecting dense Void Evil Fire outward, striking the surrounding Aurora Fire. The lights reflected upon each other, creating even more splendid colors.

Various colors twisted and danced, rapidly flashing, revealing countless mountains and rivers, trees, flowers, and people tilling in the fields, deer grazing in the forest, whales riding the waves at sea, multi-clawed monstrous fish transporting massive logs up the mountains, as well as immortals dueling, sword controlling into the sky, Divine Thunder clashes, discussions of Dao under trees, alchemy in the mountains, and other scenes.

Some of these were real events from Outer Heaven Divine Mountain over the years, all recorded by the Aurora Fire, but fragmented. Struck by the Void Evil Fire, these memory fragments resurfaced, recombined, forming many new "stories," some amusing, some surprising.

Outer Heaven Divine Mountain was indeed vast and heavy. Although its mass had reduced significantly after the baptism of the Heavenly Tribulation, Shi Feiyang introduced more things from the outside, especially incessantly absorbing various energy materials from space. Even though dirt impurities were expelled, the remaining energy still increased the total mass of the Divine Mountain, almost comparable to when Shi Feiyang hadn't arrived. Its size increased by about a third, with an East-West diameter of nearly thirty thousand miles. To launch such a massive object into space required an immense amount of energy.

The Circulation Divine Shuttles continued to spew fire, but mere propulsion was insufficient to lift Outer Heaven Divine Mountain. They also generated an unseen attraction, drawing toward the sun, moon, and stars above.

The three hundred and sixty shuttle wells acted like three hundred and sixty invisible ropes, pushing and pulling. Only after a cup of tea's worth of time did the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain finally tremble and lift from the ground.

The powerful suction produced by the Magnetic True Qi ejected from the Earth Axis below made it extremely challenging to break free. This initial separation was particularly tough. Once airborne, the suction diminished, making subsequent flight increasingly easier.

As the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain took flight, all the people on the mountain cheered in unison.

Shi Feiyang, standing on the altar, waited as the Divine Mountain continued to ascend, one zhang, ten zhang, a hundred zhang, a thousand zhang, ten thousand zhang...

As the speed increased, it soon left the atmosphere, entering into space.

The populace only knew that their monarch intended to lead them to ascend to Heaven, and indeed, they flew into space. Watching the sky change above, they exclaimed and cheered.

The group of immortals and ministers, however, knew this was just the beginning, with true danger lying ahead.

Upon entering space, the sun quickly shifted from its eternal position overhead to below the horizon, leaving Outer Heaven Divine Mountain in nighttime darkness, with only occasional meteor-like debris from the Heavenly Stars flashing by, bringing fleeting sparks of colorful light.

Departing from the sun, sunlight and warmth vanished, and the temperature on Outer Heaven Divine Mountain plummeted.

Shi Feiyang waved the Jade Ruler again: "Sun, moon, and the five stars rise to their positions!"

Seven immortals, adhering to the decree, ascended into the pre-established Nine-layered Heaven Array.

Huo Wuhai ascended into the Sun Meridian Heaven, began to emit True Sun Fire in the eastern skies.

The people saw a new red sun rising in the east, illuminating the mountains and seas once again, warming their bodies, prompting another unanimous cheer of "Long live the Dragon Emperor."

Deng Bagu also settled in the Moonlight Heaven, appearing as the Moon Wheel in the western sky, but without emitting lunar light, merely hanging quietly there.

The other five stars, Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth, also appeared, forming around the sun and moon.

Outer Heaven Divine Mountain kept flying through space, gaining speed like a cannonball shooting towards the edge of the cosmic void.

Shi Feiyang first directed Jin Xunu to ascend to the Eighth Layer Heaven, calculated the Circulation trajectory, and after about half a day, when the time seemed right, invited Master Chi Zhang to preside here, then ascended straight upwards to the highest layer, Chaos Heaven, settling there momentarily.

All the immortals below knew the crucial moment was imminent, their hearts leaping into their throats.

The Spiritual Space Immortal Realm existed in another dimensional space, about to breach the boundary between the two worlds, forcibly breaking in—this was even more thrilling than crossing the grand tribulation of Heaven and Earth!

Several immortals started to regret: I must be crazy, cultivating both immortals and demons alike to partake in something like this!

Before they completed their regrets, amid a dragon's roar from the air, Shi Feiyang spat out the Chaos Dragon Ball, breaking the boundary between the Spiritual Space Immortal Realm and the Mortal World.

Originally, outside the "Nine Layers of Heaven" was in utter darkness, abruptly a massive hole seemed to burst open, revealing the other side full of light. Streams of Immortal Light descended, and a thousand auspicious mists, ten thousand rainbows entwined, dazzling, leaving one spellbound.

The "Nine Layers of Heaven" atop Outer Heaven Divine Mountain forcibly squeezed through this hole upward.

In the beginning, when Pangu opened the heavens, as chaos initially divided, the universe established, Pure Qi ascended to become the heavens, and Dull Energy descended to form the earth.

Outer Heaven Divine Mountain was originally born amid the Cosmos. Due to entanglements in a tumultuous event years ago, it was forcibly cast into the Mortal World, accumulating much dull energy over the years, with many additions atop it. Despite refinement, substantial dull energy impurities persisted, preventing it from attaining "Pure Clarity."

At this moment, mixing dullness with clarity immediately provoked the Immortal Realm's Pure Qi to react, causing intense turbulence in the cosmic region within thousands of miles, equivalent to a significant earthquake in the Immortal Realm.

The Pure Qi is also layered, the highest being Taixu Heaven, where the Heavenly God resides in the Taixu Immortal Mansion, which is still tranquil, while the layers below are experiencing varying degrees of turbulence.

A multitude of Heavenly Immortals, Golden Immortals, and Immortals stand unsteadily, "What is happening? Quickly summon the God of the Surveying Heavens to investigate!"

The Spiritual Space Immortal Realm is indeed vast, and beneath it, it connects to the Heavenly and Myriads of Worlds, though Myriads is a figure of speech, there are far more than ten thousand worlds in reality!

Above this, a thousand miles is almost a single step for a Heavenly Immortal, and distances of hundreds of millions of miles are quite normal.

The Immortals on these Heaven Mountains were momentarily confused about what was happening, and hurriedly called the Heavenly Gods on duty to investigate.

Before they could find out, Shi Feiyang here had already triggered the Heavenly Tribulation.

The Dull Energy should have stayed below and should not have risen. Shi Feiyang, relying entirely on "miracles through great strength," forcibly sent such a massive "Dirt" from the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, along with the "Dull Humans" and "Dull Demons" who hadn't achieved Pure Yang, which was truly going against the heavens!

The interaction and agitation between the Pure and Dull Energies, and the friction between Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha, naturally led to fierce reactions.

First, energy emerged from the endless Pure Qi, striking towards the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, forming strands of Thunder Fire, which were the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder.

Purple Cloud Thunder, Qingxiao Thunder, Tai Xiao Thunder, Dan Xiao Thunder... These thunders naturally formed and madly struck towards the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain!

Previously, Shi Feiyang used Thunder Skill to summon these thunders to descend to the human world, striking his enemies. Now the tables have turned, and he himself became the target of Divine Thunder's bombardment.

When he attacked the enemies, he used his own Mana to draw the Divine Thunder, each time summoning one, ten, a hundred, consecutively, alternating, with power already unimaginable.

This time it was triggered by the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, naturally born, and in an instant, tens of thousands, billions of paths; and not alternating descents, but arising simultaneously from the surrounding heavens and earth, continuously!

In an instant, the entire Outer Heaven Divine Mountain became a gigantic ball of lightning!

The densely packed Heavenly Thunder exploded simultaneously, like billions of thunder chisels, fiercely chiseling upon it.

Naturally, the "Chaos Heaven" at the outermost layer bore the brunt first.

At the moment the Heavenly Thunder struck down, Shi Feiyang felt all the Mana in his body being drained!

Various colors of Shenxiao Heavenly Thunder pierced through the Hongmeng Purple Qi emitted by the Yuan Yang Ruler, piercing through the Nine Golden Flowers, piercing through his Divine Sense, piercing through his body, piercing through the "Chaos Heaven," piercing through everything...

However, it was just a fleeting moment, the Nine Golden Flowers above his head swiftly became purple-green, intertwining and merging, from nine flowers to three, then from three to one, after the cycle of nine returning to one and reversing again into three, he merged these Nine Golden Flowers with his Top Three Flowers, blooming larger and more beautifully than before, with three little figures appearing inside the flowers.

At the same time, five Lotus Platforms appeared beneath and around Shi Feiyang, each seated with a person holding a Treasure.

The Heavenly Thunder pierced the Divine Sense, directly bombarding a person's consciousness, a person's memories, striking at a person's Primordial Spirit Soul, imposing a great terror of imminent annihilation.

The Heavenly Thunder pierced the body, making the limbs and bones burst with flames, Thunder Fire burning the body, stirring the blood.

For others, they would have already turned to ash, body and spirit both perished, even if they could survive, it would surely cause despair...

Yet Shi Feiyang was unafraid, instead feeling a kind of invigorating thrill.

He relished this feeling of being baptized by nature!

Back when he was a Black Dragon in Dinghu Peak, he once proactively consumed the "Scraping Immortal Pill," putting himself in extreme pain, as if being sliced by thousands of knives from inside out during duels.

Later when he was Crossing Tribulation on the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, he experienced another bout of pain that others could hardly endure.

He hadn't felt such sensation for a long time. The ordinary storms and rains in the world could no longer provide him with physical stimulation, causing some ripples in his heart.

Only this Heavenly Tribulation!

Only this Heavenly Thunder!

It could temper his soul, refine his flesh, making himself and this Outer Heaven Divine Mountain more powerful!

On the five Lotus Platforms, the five Shi Feiyangs all spread their arms, as if bathing in the sunlight, actively embracing the dense Nine Heavens Divine Thunder.

Let this Heavenly Thunder come even more fiercely!